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P. F. PARKER;

HINGEU No. 327,192. Patented Sept. 29, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK F. PARKER, OF GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO PHILANDER DERBY & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

-HINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,192, dated September 29, 1885.

Application filed July 6, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK F. PARKER, of Gardner, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Hinges or Joints for Childrens Chairs, of which the following description,- in Connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has forits objectto construct a hinge or joint, especially applicable to a childs chair, to connect the table with the usual arms of a chair, so that the table, when turned aside out of horizontal position,will be compelled to occupy a substantially vertical position close to theside of the seat-arm.

My improved hinge is composed,essentially, of a socket-piece having a downwardly-inclined face, and a pintle-receiving opening or hole at right angles to the said face, and of a pintle-carrying block, also having a downwardly-inclined face, and a pintle to enter the opening in the said socket-piece, as will be hereinafter described, the base of the pintlecarrying block,when applied to a chair, to connect the arms and table, standing in vertical position while the table is in a horizontal position and at right angles thereto, or in ahorizontal position after the table is turned aside or while it hangs in vertical position.

Figure 1 in side elevation represents my improved hinge or joint applied to a childs chair. Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation of Fig. l, the dotted lines showing the table swung aside and hanging down. Fig. 3 in elevation shows the hinge or joint detached and on a larger scale; and Fig. 4, a vertical section of Fig. 3, the dotted lines showing the pintlecarrying block turned from its vertical into its horizontal position.

My invention is herein shown as applied to a childs chair, in which the seat A, its side arms, B, and table 0 are and may be of any usual or suitable construction.

The socketpiecc D of the joint or hinge has a base, a, a face, a, at an acute angle to the said base, and an opening, a at right angles to the said face. The socket-piece D also has projections aflprovided with holes to receiv screws by which to attach the said socketpiece to one of the side arms of a chair, the base a then occupying substantially a vertical position.

The pintle-carrying block E of the hinge has a base, 6, a face, 6*, to rest against a diagonally-extended pintle, 6 to enter the opening a in thesaid socket-piece, ears 6, having holes a being provided to receive screws by which to secure the pintle-carrying block to the table.

When the joint is applied to a chair and the table 0 is in a horizontal osition, the bases 6 and a will be substantially parallel, as in full lines in Figs. 1, 2, and 4; but when the table is turned off from the arms B of the seat the diagonal pintle and inclined faces a and c", then in contact, will cause the table to descend in a curve or rotate upon the inclined face, with the pintle as the axis, until it hangs in vertical position, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, the pintle-carrying block E then occupying the dotted-line position in Fig. 4.

I claim The herein-described hinge or joint, consisting of the socketpiece D, provided with the inclined face a, having a pintle-receiving opening, a and the pintle-carrying block E, having a face, e and a pintle, c, all constructed and to operate substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specificationin the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK F. PARKER.

Witnesses:

J. WALTER DAvIs, J AMEs A. STILEs. 

